Benton Editorial

We have just a few days left in 2008, but there's still time for the Federal Communications Commission to give us a gift and correct a great error made on Election Day. There's overwhelming consensus that we should be moving to universal, affordable broadband. Here's how the FCC could set us on that course.

Benton Editorial

Putting the Public Interest Back Into Communications Part II:
Broadband for Everyone, Everywhere

Charles Benton

An invitation to speak at the annual conference of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, has me thinking about defining our communications goals for the next Administration.

T.S. Eliot wrote:Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in the past

United States Senate
Committee on Appropriations
Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies and
Financial Services and General Government
"Watch What You Eat: Food Marketing to Kids"
September 23, 2008

Children Now thanks Senators Harkin, Specter, Durbin and Brownback for hosting this hearing today to address the influence of food marketing on children's health. It could not come at a more critical time.

Benton Editorial

The Senate Commerce Committee meets September 16 to hear testimony on the consumer benefits of broadband service. The question of the day is ? I could offer a long list of reasons why broadband matters, but the list of reasons is too long to enumerate here because it is over 305 million names long.